Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 17:05:03 -0700
Reply-To: mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From: mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Re: gowesty aux battery problems
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Too late now but there was no need to clip any wires to connect the cig
lighter, int lights, and stereo to the aux battery. Not with an 86+ with
the modern fuse panel setup as they are easily separated from the main
electrical as described here many times. GoWesty should tell you the
easy way but I guess they don't.
What does it mean when you say "with the fridge/sink cord unplugged "???
Make sure that the fridge rocker switch is turned to 110 Volts. I
suspect that the fridge12 volt element is somehow being powered all the
time. Are the original 2 fuses for the kitchen still wired in? You could
pull them one at a time to see if it makes a difference.
Mark
Aaron Pearson wrote:
> last weekend, i:
>
> pulled the fridge, cleaned it, and installed gowesty's increased airflow
> starter kit
> added gowesty's bright light relays, and put in new brighter bulbs
> replaced the antenna
> put in gowesty's aux battery kit
>
> everything worked fine, i drove it a couple times, no problem. now it is
> clear that there is some load on my aux battery. i pulled the battery,
> checked all my new wiring, and confirmed that the aux battery was
> connected
> to the fridge/sink, cig lighter, int lights, and stereo. with all of
> those
> things turned off, and the fridge/sink cord unplugged, my aux battery
> voltage was dropping. i lost a 1/3 volt in 5 minutes. there's a 30amp
> breaker in gowesty's kit, that remained untripped. when the van is on,
> all
> the aux connections work fine, the aux battery charges fine.
>
> understand that the only things tapped into the aux battery are the
> things i
> listed.
>
> one thing i changed was i used a wire nut (like for installing light
> fixtures in your house) instead of the peculiar four-socket plastic
> connector. this is to connect the aux battery to the freshly clipped
> leads
> for int lights, stereo and cig lighter. i couldn't get the wires into the
> plastic connector without destroying them, and figured if the nut is good
> for household 110, it must be okay for 12v.
>
> obviously, i'm not an automotive electrician, but i know how to strip and
> crimp and run a dmm.
>
> any thoughts???
>
> aaron
> '87 syncro westy ej22
>
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